"I adored my Aunt Alice! When I was a baby with my mother, Jean, in Spencer, Iowa, while the men were in WWII, I was around Alice, and Mother always said we were great pals. As I grew older, she would visit us in Sioux Falls, and we would laugh and talk and have fun. When she got married, I got to be a flower girl at the wedding…she made me feel so grown up and important! In high school she invited me to visit one summer, to help and play with Jean and Ian, who were little children, and so fun and darling! I remember having a wonderful time with them all. Leslie always treated me so beautifully, and made me feel part of the family. When I was married, Alice couldn't come to the wedding because my grandmother Mimi, was dying and Alice had to stay to take care of her. I remember that the day after the wedding, my mother left to be with her sister Alice, and their mother, my Mimi, Alice Emily McMillan Wilson, died about a week after Edward and I got married. I loved Mimi with all my heart, and Alice and my mother, Jean, and older sister Claire, always seemed exactly like different pieces of a puzzle, that fitted together, made Mimi! All of them were amazing women. Alice and I wrote letters, exchanged Christmas cards, presents of all types, and talked on the telephone for years. It was a wonderful time when she came here to Jackson, MS, for Annie and Erik's wedding. That was 12 years ago, and she came with Ian and Pat. It was a grand celebration. I had wonderful phone conversations with her every few months in the following years. Alice was fun and funny and so smart, and I have always admired how she managed her life after Leslie died. She worked hard as a lawyer, and I remember talking to my mother, Jean, about fun conversations Alice and my father, Mead, would have when they visited together at Emineja. Alice was a "whirlwind" and I loved her with a passion!!!
Your memory will live on Dear Aunt Alice, love, Sallie Bailey Schott